[e2e] typical network syllabus

[Henning G. Schulzrinne]

Thanks for the list. I'm not sure a single 'advanced' course is
necessarily the best option, given the diversity of topics and
approaches.

At Columbia, we've been splitting this up into multiple courses,
including a course on network security and a course on multimedia (with
multicast, QoS, streaming, scheduling, etc.). See
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/6181 and
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/teaching/4180.html or
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/teaching/security/

Also, I think wireless and mobility issues deserve broader coverage, in
addition to web issues (where programming, rather than theory, tends to
be a major focus).

I don't think you can do justice to network security in just one or two
lectures, given the background in crypto required to make this more than
a 30,000' view. Focusing a course on media has the advantage that it
lends itself to a progressive project, incorporating multicast and
multimedia.


Constantinos Dovrolis wrote:
> 
> A related question is whether one semester-based course
> in networking is enough these days. Especially at a
> graduate program, it would make sense to have an "advanced
> networking course" with a totally different syllabus than
> the (required?) undergraduate networking course.
> 
> Such graduate-level courses are given today in several
> schools and they mainly cover research papers. Having a textbook
> that is appropriate for such a 2nd course would be quite
> useful I think. Possible topics could be:
> - Router architectures
> - "Internet algorithmics" (IP lookups, flow classification)
> - Packet scheduling
> - Intradomain routing and going deeper in OSPF
> - Interdomain routing and going deeper in BGP
> - TCP's congestion control and recent advancements (e.g., SACK)
> - QoS and traffic management
> - Multicasting protocols
> - Traffic modeling and measurements
> - Networking security issues
> - HTTP and other Web-related protocols
> - Web middleware
> - Streaming apps
> -  (...)
> 
> Raj, I am not sure whether any of the books that you mentioned
> covers all/most of these topics in sufficient depth. I think
> that the existing textbooks were meant to be mainly appropriate
> for a first course in networking. I may be wrong..
> 

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Henning Schulzrinne   http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs